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01-09-10, 07:53 AM   #10
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The argument about which is right is like debating if macaroni or noodles make better pasta. Or debating the religious argument of Mac versus PC, Windows versus Linux, etc.

Even when running Recount, the number are different between any two players. Also, last I saw, Recount was having some serious issues with accuracy with cross realm players in instances.

That said, the point of a DPS meter is to determine your performance relative to your "normal" performance and relative to the other party members. While every DPS meter has issues with accuracy in calculating the DPS of other party members, they're all pretty good at calculating your own DPS. And that's the rub... your DPS number will not match what any other player thinks your DPS number is.

In the end, Skada will not give the same numbers that Recount gives -- ever... but that doesn't mean it is any less accurate or less useful. Once you know what your DPS should look like using Skada, then you also know when your DPS is off and when it is improving and that is, after all, the whole point. Whether or not that number is the same number Recount would have given is not relavent to that.

Given all of that, the fact that Skada can do this in a much smaller footprint while also replacing Omen, also in a smaller footprint... well, yeah... it begins to be an open and shut case imo.
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